Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Suffering
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
-Meister Eckhart "Meister Eckhart"
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
"Shadowlands"
